Visual and textual family archives as a resource for shaping the values of future doctors

the article analyzes family practices of preserving memory among 1st - and 2nd-year medical students in the Central Federal District, highlighting visual, handwritten, and material media and their pedagogical significance in higher medical education. The goal is to describe the prevalence and types of information carriers and outline the possibilities for integrating them into education. Methodology: one-time questionnaire (n=202; 18±1 years; 146 girls, 56 boys), frequency analysis, and qualitative coding of open-ended responses in the specified areas/themes. It was found that 97.0% of respondents have family photographs and albums; 71.8% have handwritten evidence (letters, postcards, and diaries); and 31.2% have material relics. The handwritten collection is dominated by family correspondence and greeting cards, as well as frontline/army letters, diaries, and children's works, which serve as intermediaries in communication between generations. Among the relics, jewelry/gold, medals/orders, and icons predominate; dishes, figurines, clocks, and military artifacts are less common. The practical significance lies in the inclusion of tasks related to family photographs and letters, digital storage of home archives, and intergenerational interviews, which contribute to the development of students' value reflection and humanistic orientation in their professional socialization.

family values, continuity between generations, value orientations of youth